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Yeah the exodus to Bluesky after the election was odd, but not surprising. I think Bluesky's initial invitation only policy worked against it, since when I eventually signed up a lot of the people I followed/interacted with on Twitter weren't there. Now it's much more like the Twitter of old, and I've reconnected with a few Twitter ex pats who bailed in the early days of Space Karen's take over of Twitter.

I do applaud the instant block culture on Bluesky though, and the zero tolerance for fuckwits. Long may it reign.

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Watching 44 Billion burn down to a dull glow has a certain entertainment, I miss the old twitter just as I miss JournalSpace. It's the Internet nothing is permanent/forever.

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Jspace forever

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If only JB, if only

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I miss Geo cities and web rings , when the internet was weirdly difficult to make content and be involved in more than as a simple surfer viewer. Now all you need is a ring light and a camera that runs at 25 fps and suddenly your podcast about ewoks looks like Scorcese's Casino.

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I've been off twitter since the day the fuckwank bought it. I dithered on threads for a while, but I am really enjoying Bluesky so far. A lot of the people I followed have shown up and it really feels like the better days of Twitter. Hopefully it says that way.

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oh man, dont entice me to the alternative twitter where they wear cut off army shorts and flannies and grow their hair long. I've resisted threads. But i do miss that old twitter feel of engaging with scientists in particular (i do not miss the oil slick taste of using it in the latter stages though).

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"I don’t have any grand insights beyond this" and yet surprisingly there are many who log onto Bluesky and other social media that never seem to come to this insight. Block and don't feel bad if someone blocks you, plenty of other interesting, intriguing, fascinating folk on Bluesky and more join everyday.

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I, too, clawed my way out of the Xcrement and reeled away in horror when the US election "result" came in. Not much less political on BS, but far more civil. Grimly fascinating to watch the US destroying itself in real time, likewise Russia.

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"Don't feed the trolls" was always the mantra on Usenet, but since that was only achieved by self-restraint and personal kill-files it often didn't help, and then ultimately Eternal September happened. If Bluesky has finessed the mechanism enough to make it mostly work, good on them.

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"personal kill-files" makes it sound like a techno thriller

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Or a geeky filk of a Depeche Mode song.

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I tried bluesy, it was ok. I lasted a week then deleted it. It made me angry listening to supposedly left wing Americans wish loudy that there weren't poor people, or the working class, or the uneducated or black people not acting like happy pets. All the while wanting to turn back time to when Clinton was president , and poor immigrants will pick their crops cheap so they can be as middle class but with cheap labour to fix their houses and gardens. Plus they all piled on about a pug winning a dog show in New York. So yeah, fuck those guys.

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If I’ve had a bad day, I sometimes treat myself to clicking on a post I know will attract dills like penguins to a trampoline, and then blocking anyone displaying egregious fuckwittery.

It's wonderfully cathartic!

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Trolls can go get bent. Be constructive or...die like the rest.

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Pardon me for being a Cassandra, but BlueSky is vulnerable to the same risks that overtook Twitter. It could be sold to a narcissistic lunatic at any time. Investing any fraction of your heart and soul in that platform is risky. Something like Mastodon is safer, as there is no centralised control, and you can decide for yourself whether you like the way your current host is running the show, and move if you decide you don't like it. I used to occasionally browse twitter, though haven't actively interacted with anything there for a very long time. The ranty political posts, plus a few newsy posters who don't post elsewhere, made it worthwhile as long as you never read the replies. Now that I've lost my appetite for ranty political posts I haven't bothered firing up the twitter client for a while and haven't missed it.

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